Publications of Dirk P. Kroese
- Chan, J.C.C. and Kroese, D.P. (2025). Statistical Modeling and
Computation, Second Edition. Springer, New York. Springer
Texts in Statistics.
- Hoerger, M., Kurniawati, H., Kroese, D.P., and Ye, N. (2024). Adaptive
Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs.
The International Journal of Robotics Research 43 (9), 1283-1298.
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Hoerger M., Kurniawati H., Kroese, D.P. and Ye, N. (2024).
A surprisingly simple continuous-action POMDP solver: lazy
cross-entropy search over policy trees.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 38
(18).
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Kroese, D.P. and Botev, Z.I. (2023).
An Advanced Course in Probability and Stochastic Processes
CRC Press, Boka Raton.
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Ju, J, Kurniawati, H., Kroese, D.P., and Ye. N. (2023).
Model-based offline reinforcement learning for sustainable fishery
management. Expert Systems. DOI: 10.1111/exsy.13324.
(pdf)
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Hoerger, M., Kurniawati, H., Kroese, D.P., and Ye. N. (2023).
A Surprisingly Simple Continuous-Action POMDP Solver: Lazy
Cross-Entropy Search Over Policy Trees. arXiv:2305.08049. (pdf)
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Gibson, L., Hoerger, M., and Kroese, D.P. (2023)
A Flow-Based Generative Model for Rare-Event Simulation.
arXiv:2305.07863. (pdf)
- Hoerger, M., Kurniawati, H., Kroese D.P., and Ye, N. (2023).
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs.
arXiv:2302.10439. To appear in
The International Journal of Robotics Research. (pdf)
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Ju, J., Kurniawati, H., Kroese, D.P., and Ye, N. (2022). MOOR:
Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning for Sustainable Fishery
Management.
Proc. Int. International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM). (pdf)
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Van der Heide, C., Hodgkinson, L, Roosta, F., and Kroese, D.P.
Shadow Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2021, San Diego,
California, USA. PMLR: Volume 130.0 (pdf)
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Hirsch, C., Moka, S.B., Taimre, T., Kroese, D.P. (2021), Rare Events in Random
Geometric Graphs.
Methodol. Comput. Appl. Probab.
DOI:10.1007/s11009-021-09857-7.
(pdf)
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Shukla, A., Nguyen, T., Moka, S.B., Ellis, J., Grady, J.,
Oey, H., Cristino, A., Khanna, K.K., Kroese, D.P.,
Krause, L., Dray, E., Fink, J.L., and Duijf, P. (2020),
Chromosome arm aneuploidies shape tumour evolution, cancer prognosis
and drug response. Nature Communications 11, Article Number 449.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14286-0.
(link)
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Moka, S.B. and Kroese, D.P. (2020). Perfect Sampling for Gibbs Point
Processes Using Partial Rejection Sampling.
Bernoulli 26 (3), 2082-2104.
(pdf).
DOI: 10.3150/19-BEJ1184
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Hirsch, C., Moka, S.B., Taimre, T., Kroese, D.P. (2020),
Rare Events in Random Geometric Graphs.
arXiv:2007.05965 (pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Botev, Z.I, Taimre, T. and Vaisman, R. (2019). Data Science and
Machine Learning: Mathematical and Statistical Methods.
Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton.
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Wang E., Kurniawati, H. and Kroese, D.P. (2019). Inventory control with
partially observable states.
In Elsawah, S. (ed.) MODSIM2019, 23rd International Congress on
Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of
Australia and New Zealand, December 2019, pp. 200--206.
ISBN: 978-0-9758400-9-2.
https://doi.org/10.36334/modsim.2019.B1.wang
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Moka, S.B., Kroese, D.P. and Juneja, S. (2019).
Unbiased estimation of the reciprocal mean for non-negative random variables.
Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference.
N. Mustafee, K.-H.G. Bae, S. Lazarova-Molnar, M. Rabe, C. Szabo, P. Haas, and Y.-J. Son, eds.
(pdf)
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Moka, S.B. and Kroese, D.P. (2019).
Perfect Sampling for Gibbs Point Processes Using Partial Rejection
Sampling. arXiv:1901.05624 (pdf)
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Taimre, T., Kroese, D.P, and Botev, Z.I. (2019).
Monte Carlo Methods. Wiley StatsRef: Statistical Reference
Online (pdf).
DOI: 10.1002/9781118445112.stat03619.pub2
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Salomone, R., South, L.F., Drovandi, C.C., and Kroese, D.P. (2018).
Unbiased and Consistent Nested Sampling via Sequential Monte Carlo.
arXiv:2266894 (pdf).
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Wang, E., Kurniawati, H., and Kroese,
D.P. (2018). An On-line Planner for POMDPs with Large Discrete Action Space:
A Quantile-Based Approach.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'2018)
.
(pdf).
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Botev, Z.I., Chen, Y.-L., L'Ecuyer, P., MacNamara, S., and Kroese,
D.P. (2018).
Exact Posterior Simulation from the Linear Lasso Regression
Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference,
M. Rabe, A. A. Juan, N. Mustafee, A. Skoogh, S. Jain, and B. Johansson, eds.
(pdf).
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L'Ecuyer, P., Botev, Z.I. and Kroese, D.P. (2018). On A Generalized Splitting Method For Sampling
From A Conditional Distribution.
Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference,
M. Rabe, A. A. Juan, N. Mustafee, A. Skoogh, S. Jain, and B. Johansson, eds.
(pdf).
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Vaisman, R. and Kroese, D.P. (2017). On the analysis of independent
sets via multilevel splitting. Networks 71 (3), 281--301.
(pdf). DOI: 10.1002/net.21805
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Duan, Q. and Kroese, D.P. (2018). Splitting for multi-objective
optimization. Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability 20 (2), 517--533.
(pdf). DOI: 10.1007/s11009-017-9572-5
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Shah, R. and Kroese, D.P. (2017). Without replacement sampling for
particle methods on finite state spaces. Statistics and
Computing 28 (3), 633--652.
(pdf). doi:10.1007/s11222-017-9752-8
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Vaisman, R, Roughan, M, and Kroese, D.P. (2017). The multilevel
splitting algorithm for graph coloring with application to the Potts
model. Philosophical Magazine 97 (19), 1646--1673.
(pdf). doi:10.1080/14786435.2017.1312023
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Vaisman, R. and Kroese, D.P. (2017). Stochastic Enumeration Method
for Counting Trees.
Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability 19, 31--73. doi:10.1007/s11009-015-9457-4
(pdf).
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Benham, T., Duan, Q., Kroese, D.P. and Liquet, B. (2017). CEoptim:
Cross-Entropy R Package for Optimization. Journal of Statistical
Software 76 (8)
(pdf).
(CRAN) doi:10.18637/jss.v076.i08
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Rubinstein, R. Y. , Kroese, D. P. (2017). Simulation and the
Monte Carlo Method, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons.
- Wang, E., Kurniawati H., Kroese, D.P. (2017). CEMAB: A
Cross-Entropy-based method for large-scale multi-armed bandits. In:
Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational
Intelligence (ACALCI 2017). X. Li, T. Hendtlass, M. Wagner,
eds., pp. 353-365, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51691_230. (pdf).
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Vaisman, R., Kroese, D.P., and Gertsbakh, I. (2016). Splitting
sequential Monte Carlo for efficient unreliability estimation of
highly reliable networks. Structural Safety. DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2016.07.001.
(pdf).
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Grant, M.R. and Kroese, D.P. Efficient estimation of tail
probabilities of the typical distance in preferential attachment
models.(2016)
Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference,
T.M.K. Roeder, P.I. Frazier, R. Szechtman, and E. Zhou, eds.,
pp. 338-346.
(pdf).
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Scheinhardt, W.R.W. and Kroese, D.P. (2016). A comparison of random
walks in dependent random environments. Advances in Applied
Probability 48 (1), 199-214. DOI:10.1017/apr.2015.13.
(pdf).
- Duan, Q. and Kroese, D.P. (2016). Splitting for
Optimization. Computers and Operations
Research 73, 119--131.
DOI:10.1016/j.cor.2016.04.015.
(pdf).
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Salomone, R., Vaisman, R., and Kroese, D.P. (2016).
Estimating the Number of Vertices in Convex Polytopes.
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Operations
Research and Statistics, ORS 2016 .
(pdf).
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Vaisman, R., Kroese, D.P., and Gertsbakh, I.B. (2016). Improved
Sampling Plans for Combinatorial Invariants of Coherent
Systems. IEEE Trans. Rel. 65 (1), 410-424, DOI:
10.1109/TR.2015.2446471 (pdf).
- Spettl, A., Brereton, T., Duan, Q. Werz,T., Krill III, C.E.,
Kroese, D.P., and Schmidt, V. (2016). Fitting Laguerre tessellation approximations to
tomographic image data. Philosophical Magazine 96 (2),
166-189. (pdf).
doi:10.1080/14786435.2015.1125540
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Shah,R. and Kroese, D.P. (2015).
Estimating residual connectivity for random graphs.
arXiv:1506.01117. (pdf).
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Westhoff, D., van Franeker J.J., Brereton, T., Kroese, D.P.,
Janssen, R.A.J. and Schmidt, V. (2015).
Stochastic modeling and predictive simulations for
the microstructure of organic semiconductor films
processed with different spin coating velocities.
Modeling Simulation Mater. Sci. Eng. 23 (4).
DOI:10.1088/0965-0393/23/4/045003 (pdf).
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Kroese, D.P. and Chan, J.C.C. (2014). Statistical Modeling and
Computation. Springer, New York.
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Brereton, T., Hirsch, C., Schmidt, V., and Kroese, D.P. (2014). A
critical exponent for shortest-path scaling in continuum percolation.
Journal of Physics A 47 505003. DOI:10.1088/1751-8113/47/50/505003 (pdf).
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Shah R., Hirsch C., Kroese D.P., and Schmidt, V. (2014). Rare event
probability estimation for connectivity of large random graphs.
Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference,
A Tolks, S.D. Diallo, I.O, Ryzhov, L. Yilmaz, S. Buckley, and
J.A. Miller, eds., pp 510-521
(pdf).
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Kroese D.P., Brereton T., Taimre T., and Botev, Z.I. (2014). Why the
Monte Carlo Method is so important today. Wiley
Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational
Statistics 6, 386-392. DOI: 10.1002/wics.1314 (pdf).
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Duan Q., Kroese D.P., Brereton T., Spettl A., and Schmidt V. (2014).
Inverting Laguerre Tessellations. The Computer
Journal 9, 1431-1440. DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxu029 (pdf).
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Stenzel, O., Hirsch, C., Brereton T.,
Baumeier, B., Andrienko, D., Kroese, D.P., and Schmidt, V. (2014). A general framework for consistent
estimation of charge transport properties
via random walks in random environments. Multiscale
Model. Simul. 12 (3), 1108-1134
(pdf).
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Grace A.W., Kroese D.P., and Sandmann W. (2014).
Automated state-dependent importance sampling for Markov jump
processes via sampling from the zero-variance distribution.
Journal of Applied Probability 51 (3), 741-755 (pdf).
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Scheinhardt, W.R.W. and Kroese, D.P. (2014). Computing the drift of
random walks in dependent random environments. arXiv:1406.3390
(pdf).
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Kroese, D.P. and Botev, Z.I. (2014). Spatial Process Generation. In: V. Schmidt (Ed.). Lectures on Stochastic Geometry,
Spatial Statistics and Random Fields, Volume II: Analysis, Modeling
and Simulation of Complex Structures, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
arXiv: 1308.0399
(pdf).
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Brereton, T., Chan J.C.C., and Kroese, D.P. (2013). Monte Carlo
Methods for Portfolio Credit Risk.
In:
Credit Portfolio Securitizations and Derivatives, H. Scheule and
D. Rosch (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp 128 - 151.
(pdf)
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Brereton, T., Stenzel, O., Baumeier B., Andienko, D., Schmidt, V.,
Kroese D. P. (2014). Efficient Simulation of Markov Chains using
Segmentation. Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability 16 (2), 465-484. DOI 10.1007/s11009-013-9327-x
(pdf)
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Stenzel., O, Westhoff, D., Manke, I., Kasper, M., Kroese, D.P.,
and Schmidt, V. (2013).
Graph-based simulated annealing: A hybrid
approach to stochastic modeling of complex
microstructures. Modelling Simulation
Mater. Sci. Eng. 21 (5). DOI:
10.1088/0965-0393/21/5/055004.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Rubinstein, R.Y, and Glynn, P.W. (2013). The
Cross-Entropy Method for Estimation. In Handbook of Statistics,
Volume 31: Machine Learning: Theory and Applications, V. Govindaraju
and C.R. Rao, Eds, Chennai: Elsevier B.V., pp. 19-34. (pdf)
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Botev, Z.I., Kroese, D.P., Rubinstein, R.Y, and L'Ecuyer, P. (2013). The
Cross-Entropy Method for Optimization. In Handbook of Statistics,
Volume 31: Machine Learning: Theory and Applications, V. Govindaraju
and C.R. Rao, Eds, Chennai: Elsevier B.V., pp. 35-59.
(pdf)
doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-53859-8.00003-5
- Brereton, T., Kroese, D.P., Stenzel, O., Schmidt, Baumeier,
B. (2012).
Efficient simulation of charge transport in deep-trap media,
Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference,
C. Laroque, J. Himmelspach, R. Pasupathy, O. Rose, and
A. M. Uhrmacher, eds.
(pdf)
- Kroese, D.P., Rubinstein, R.Y. (2012). Monte Carlo Methods.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 4
, 48-58. DOI: 10.1002/wics.194 . (pdf)
- Chan, J.C.C. and Kroese, D.P. (2012). Improved cross-entropy method
for estimation. Statistics and Computing 22 (5) 1031-1040.
(pdf)
- Brereton, T.I, Chan, J.C.C, and Kroese, D.P. (2011). Fitting
mixture importance sampling distributions via improved cross-entropy.
Proceedings of the 2011
Winter Simulation Conference.
S. Jain, R. R. Creasey, J. Himmelspach, K.P. White, and M. Fu, eds., pp.
422-428. (pdf)
- Stacey, K. W. and Kroese, D.P. (2011) Greedy servers on a torus.
Proceedings of the 2011
Winter Simulation Conference.
S. Jain, R. R. Creasey, J. Himmelspach, K.P. White, and M. Fu, eds.,
pp. 369-380. (pdf)
- Kroese, D.P., Taimre, T., and Botev, Z.I. (2011). Handbook of Monte
Carlo Methods, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, John Wiley
& Sons, New York.
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Kroese D.P., Rubinstein R. Y., Cohen I., Porotsky S. and T. Taimre
"Cross-Entropy Method", in Encyclopedia of Operations Research and
Management Sciences, third edition (S. I. Gass and M. C. Fu, Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2011.
(pdf)
- Chan, J.C.C, Glynn P.W., and Kroese, D.P. (2011). A comparison of cross-entropy and
variance minimization strategies. Journal of Applied
Probability 48A, 183-194. (pdf)
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Botev, Z.I. and Kroese, D.P. (2012). Efficient Monte Carlo simulation
via the Generalized Splitting Method. Statistics and Computing.
22 (1), 1-16. (pdf)
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Botev, Z.I., Kroese, D.P. (2011). The Generalized Cross Entropy
Method, with Applications to Probability Density
Estimation.
Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability .
13 (1), 1-27.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. (2011). The Cross-Entropy
Method. In Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and
Management Science
J. Cochran, L. A. Cox, Jr., P. Keskinocak, J. P. Kharoufeh, J. C. Smith (Eds.)
John Wiley and Sons, New York.
(pdf)
- Rojas-Nandayapa, L, Foss, S., and Kroese, D.P.
Stability and Performance of
Greedy Server Systems:
A Review and Open Problems. (2011) Queueing Systems: Theory and
Applications 68, 221-227. (pdf)
- Botev, Z.I., Grotowski, J.F, and Kroese, D. P. (2010). Kernel density
estimation via diffusion. Annals of Statistics 38 (5),
2916-2957
(pdf) .
For the matlab code please visit
matlabcentral.
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Evans G. E., Sofronov G. Yu., Keith J. M., and Kroese
D. P. (2010).
Estimating Change-Points in Biological
Sequences via the Cross-Entropy Method.
Annals of Operations Research. 189 (1), 155-165.
(pdf)
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Chan, J.C.C. and Kroese, D.P. (2010). Efficient Estimation of Large
Portfolio Loss Probabilities in t-copula Models European Journal
of Operational Research, 205 (2), 361-367. (pdf)
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Chan, C. C., Kroese, D.P. (2010).
Rare-event Probability Estimation with
Conditional Monte Carlo. Annals of Operations Research
189 (1), 43-61.
(pdf)
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Kothari, R. P. and Kroese, D.P. (2009). Optimal generation expansion
planning via the cross-entropy method. Proceedings of the 2009
Winter Simulation Conference.
M. D. Rossetti, R. R. Hill, B. Johansson, A. Dunkin, and R. G. Ingalls, eds.
pp. 1482-1491 (pdf)
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Sofronov G. Yu., Evans G. E., Keith J. M., Kroese D. P. (2009). Identifying
Change-points in Biological Sequences via Sequential Importance
Sampling. Environmental Modeling & Assessment
14 (5), 577-584.
(pdf)
- Belay A., O'Brien, E.G, and Kroese, D.P. (2008).
Truck Flee
t Model for Design and Assessment of Flexible Pavements.
Journal of Sound and Vibration 311 (3-5) 1161-1174.
(pdf)
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Sani, A, Kroese, D.P. (2008). Controling the number of HIV infectives in a mobile population. Mathematical
Biosciences 213 103-112.
(pdf)
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Botev, Z.I., Kroese, D.P. (2008). An Efficient Algorithm for
Rare-event Probability Estimation, Combinatorial Optimization, and
Counting. Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability 10 (4), 471-505.
(pdf)
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Chan, C.C., Kroese, D.P. (2008).
Randomized methods for solving the Winner Determination Problem in
combinatorial auctions. Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation
Conference, S. J. Mason, R. R. Hill, L. Moench, O. Rose, T. Jefferson,
J. W. Fowler eds., pp. 1344-1349.
(pdf)
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Botev, Z.I., Kroese, D.P. (2008). Non-asymptotic bandwidth selection
for density estimation of discrete data. Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability 10 435-451.
(ps)
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Keith, J.M., Kroese, D.P. and Sofronov, G. Yu. (2008)
Adaptive Independence Samplers. Statistics and Computing.
18 (4) 409-420.
(pdf)
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Botev, Z.I, Kroese, D.P., Taimre, T. (2007). Generalized Cross-Entropy
Methods with Applications to Rare-Event simulation and Optimization.
Simulation 83 (11) 785 - 806.
(pdf)
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Costa, A., Jones, O.D, Kroese, D. P. (2007). Convergence Properties of the Cross-Entropy
Method for Discrete Optimization. Operations Research
Letters 35 (5), 573-580. (pdf)
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Sani, A. and Kroese, D.P. (2007) Optimal Epidemic Intervention of HIV Spread
Using the Cross-Entropy Method. In Kulasiri, D. and Oxley, L. (Eds.)
Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
(MODSIM),
Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp.
448-454. (pdf)
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Evans, G. , Keith, J.M, Kroese, D.P (2007).
Parallel Cross-Entropy Optimization. Proceedings
of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference , Washington DC,
pp. 2196-2202. (pdf)
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Rubinstein, R. Y. , Kroese, D. P. (2007). Simulation and the
Monte Carlo Method, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons.
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Rubinstein, R.Y, Kroese, D.P, Dolgin, A. and Glynn,
P. W. (2007). Parametric Minimum Cross-Entropy Method for Counting the
Number of Satisfiability Assignments. (abstract)
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Keith, J.M., Sofronov, G. Yu. and Kroese, D.P. (2007)
The Generalized Gibbs Sampler and the Neighborhood Sampler.
Proceedings of the 7-th International Conference on Monte Carlo
and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing (MCQMC 2006)
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Nariai, S, Hui, K-P (2007). Network Reliability
Optimization via the Cross-Entropy Method. IEEE Trans. Rel. ,
56 (2), 275-287.
(pdf)
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Sani, A, Kroese, D.P, Pollett, P. (2007). Stochastic Models for the
Spread of HIV in a Mobile Heterosexual Population. Mathematical
Biosciences 208, 98-124. (pdf)
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Roberts, B., Kroese, D.P. (2007). Estimating the number of s-t paths
in a graph. Journal of Graph Algorithms and
Applications
11 (1), 195-214. (pdf)
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Kroese, D.P, Rubinstein, R.Y., Taimre, T. (2007). Application of the
Cross-Entropy Method to Clustering and Vector Quantization.
Journal of Global Optimization 37, 137-157.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Hui, K.-P. (2007). Applications of the Cross-Entropy Method in Reliability. In
Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering G. Levitin,
ed., Springer-Verlag, 37 - 82.
(pdf)
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Botev, Z.I, Kroese, D.P., Taimre, T. (2006). Generalized Cross-Entropy
Methods.
Proceedings of RESIM06, 1-30. (pdf)
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Sofronov, G, Keith, J.M., Kroese, D.P. (2006). An Optimal Sequential
Procedure for a Buying-Selling Problem with Independent Observations.
J. Appl. Prob. 43, 454-462 (pdf)
- Asmussen, S., Kroese, D.P. (2006).
Improved algorithms for rare event simulation with heavy tails.
Advances in Applied Probability 38 (2), 545-558.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P, Porotsky, S., Rubinstein, R.Y. (2006). The Cross-Entropy Method
for Continuous Multi-extremal Optimization. Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability 8, 383-407.
(pdf)
- De Boer, P-T., Kroese, D.P, Mannor, S. and Rubinstein, R.Y. (2005).
A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method.
Annals of Operations Research, 134 (1), 19-67.
(pdf) doi:10.1007/s10479-005-5724-z
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Nariai S., Kroese, D.P., Hui, K.P. (2005).
Designing an Optimal Network Using the Cross-Entropy Method. In:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science:
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Gallagher M.,
Hogan J., Maire F., Eds., Springer-Verlag. Winner of best
student paper at IDEAL 2005: 6th International Conference, July 6-8,
2005. pp 228-233 (pdf)
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Nariai S., Kroese, D.P. (2005). On the Design of Multi-type Networks
via the Cross-Entropy Method. Proceeding of the Fifth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication
Networks (DRCN 2005), pp. 109- 114 (pdf).
- Asmussen, S., Kroese, D.P., Rubinstein, R.Y. (2005).
Heavy Tails, Importance Sampling and Cross-Entropy.
Stochastic Models 21 (1), 57-76.
(pdf)
- Rubinstein, R.Y., Kroese, D.P. (2004).
The Cross-Entropy Method: A Unified Approach to Combinatorial
Optimization, Monte-Carlo Simulation, and Machine Learning,
Springer-Verlag, New York.
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Botev, Z., Kroese, D.P. (2004).
Global Likelihood Optimization via the Cross-Entropy Method,
with an Application to Mixture Models. Proceedings of the Winter
Simulation Conference, Washington DC, pp 529-535.
(pdf)
- Keith, J., Kroese, D.P., Bryant, D. (2004). A Generalized Markov
Chain Sampler. Methodology and Computing in Applied
Probability, 6 (1) 29-53.
(pdf)
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Hui, K-P., Bean, N, Kraetzl, M and Kroese, D.P. (2005).
The Cross-Entropy Method for Network Reliability Estimation.
Annals of Operations Research, 134 (1), 101-118.
(pdf) http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tr.2007.895303
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Kroese, D.P. (2005). Review of Kernel Methods for pattern Analysis,
SIAM Review, 47 (2), 385-387.
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Alon, G., Kroese, D.P., Raviv, T. and Rubinstein, R.Y. (2005).
Application of the Cross-Entropy Method to the Buffer Allocation Problem
in a Simulation-Based Environment. Annals of Operations
Research, 134 (1), 137-151.
(pdf) doi:10.1007/s10479-005-5728-8
- De Boer, P.-T., Kroese, D.P., Rubinstein, R.Y. (2004). A Fast Cross-Entropy Method for Estimating Buffer Overflows in Queueing Networks.
Management Science, 50 (7), pp 883-895.
(pdf)
- Kroese, D.P. and Rubinstein, R.Y. (2004).
The Transform Likelihood Ratio Method for Rare Event Simulation with Heavy Tails.
Queueing Systems, 46, pp 317-351.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Scheinhardt, W.C.W. and Taylor, P.G. (2004).
Spectral Properties of the Tandem Jackson Network, Seen as a
Quasi-Birth-and-Death Process. Annals of Applied Probability
14 (4), pp 2057-2089.
(pdf)
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Hui, K-P., Bean, N., Kraetzl, M. and Kroese, D.P. (2003).
The Tree Cut and Merge Algorithm for Estimation of Network
Reliability. Probability in the Engineering and Informational
Sciences 17 23-45.
(pdf)
- Hui, K-P., Bean, N, Kraetzl, M and Kroese, D.P. (2003).
Network Reliability Estimation Using the Tree Cut and Merge Algorithm with
Importance Sampling.
Proceeding of the Fourth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication
Networks (DRCN 2003), pp. 254 - 262. (pdf)
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Keith J.M., , Adams P. , Bryant D., Kroese D.P.,
Mitchelson K.R., Cochran D.A.E. and Lala G.H. (2002).
A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Finding Consensus Sequences.
Bioinformatics 18 1494-1499.
(pdf)
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Garvels, M.J.J., Kroese, D.P., Van Ommeren J-K.C.W. (2002). On the importance
function in splitting simulation. European Transactions on Telecommunications
13 (4) 363-371 (pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Nicola V.F. (2002). Efficient Simulation of a Tandem Jackson
Network. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
12 (2), 199-141. (pdf)
- Keith, J., Kroese, D.P. (2002). Sequence Alignment By Rare Event
Simulation.
Proceedings
of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference , San Diego, 320 - 327.
(pdf)
- De Boer, P.-T., Kroese, D.P., Rubinstein, R.Y. (2002).
Estimating Buffer Overflows in Three Stages using Cross-Entropy
Proceedings
of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference , San Diego, 301 - 309.
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Kroese, D.P., Scheinhardt, W.R.W. (2001). Joint distributions for interacting
fluid queues. Queueing Systems, special issue on Stochastic Models
with Tractable Steady State Characteristics, 37, 99-140.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. (2000). On the decay rates of buffers in continuous flow lines.
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2, 425-441.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Nicola V.F. (1999). Efficient estimation of overflow probabilities
in queues with breakdowns. Performance Evaluation, 36-37 471-484.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Nicola, V.F. (1998). Efficient simulation of backlogs in
fluid flow lines, Int. J. Electron. Commun. (AEU) 52 (3),
pp. 165-171.
(pdf)
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Garvels, M.J.J., Kroese, D.P. (1998). A comparison of RESTART implementations.
Proceedings
of the Winter Simulation Conference , Washington, pp.601-609.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P., Scheinhardt, W.R.W. (1998). A fluid queue driven by a fluid
queue. In B. Goldstein, A. Koucheryavy and M. Shneps-Shneppe, editors,
Teletraffic
theory as a base for QoS: monitoring, evaluation, decisions, 389-400,
St. Petersburg. (pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. (1997). Heavy-traffic analysis for continuous polling models,
J.
Appl. Probab. 34, pp. 720-732.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. , Schmidt, V. (1996). Light-traffic Analysis for Queues with
Spatially Distributed Arrivals. Math. of O.R. 21 (1)
135-157.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. , Schmidt, V. (1994). Single-Server Queues with
Spatially Distributed Arrivals. Queueing Systems 17
(I-II) 317-345.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. , Schmidt, V. (1993). Queueing Systems on a Circle.
Zeitschrift f. Operations Res. 37 303-331.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. , Schmidt, V. (1992). A Continuous Polling System
with General Service Times. Ann. Appl. Prob. 2
906-927. DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1177005580
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. , Kallenberg, W.C.M. (1992). Second-order Asymptotics in Level
Crossing for Differences of Renewal Processes. Stochastic Processes
40 309-323.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. (1992). The Difference of Two Renewal Processes. Level Crossing
and the Infimum. Stochastic Models 8 (2) 221-243.
(pdf)
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Kroese, D.P. , Kallenberg, W.C.M. (1989). Approximations to the Lifetime
distribution of k-out-of-n Systems with Cold Standby. Math. of O.R.
14 (3) 485-501. (pdf)
